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Belletonte, Pa., May 11, 1917.
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clock said half after three. The bag
with the dog collar in it was on the
floor. He thought of many things, but
mostly of the promise he had made his
mother. Cold beals of sweat stood
out on his forehead.
«I think I hear them now, sir,” said
the Lamb, and stood back respectfully
to let him pass out of the door.
Carlotta stayed in the room during
the consultation. No one seemed tc
wonder why she was there, or to pay
any attention to her. The staff was
stricken. They moved back to make
room for Doctor Ed beside the bed,
and then closed in again.
Carlotta waited. her hand over her
mouth to keep herself from screaming.
Surely they wouldn't let him die like
that! When she saw the phalanx
break up and realized they would not
operate, she ran from the room.
The staff went hopelessly down the
stairs to the smoking room, and
smoked. It was all they could do.
The night assistant sent coffee down
to them, and they drank it. Doctor
Ed stayed in his brother's room, and
said to his mother, under his breath,
that he'd tried to do his best by Max,
and that from now on it would be up
to her.
K. had brought the injured man in.
The country dogtor, on the way in, had
taken it for granted that K. was a
medical man like himself, and had
placed his hypodermic case at his dis-
posal.
When he missed him—in the smok-
ing room, that was—he asked for him,
«I don’t see the chap who came in
with us,” he said. “Clever fellow. Like
to know his name.
The staff did not know.
K. sat alone on a bench in the hall,
He wondered who would tell Sidney;
be hoped they would be very gentle
with her. He did not want to go home
and leave her to what she might have
to face. There was a chance she would
ask for him. He wanted to be near,
in that case. The night watchman
went by twice and stared at him. At
last he asked K. to mind the door un-
til he got some coffee.
“One of the staff's been hurt,” he
explained. “If I don’t get some cof-
fee now, I won't get any.”
K. promised to watch the door.
A desperate thing had occurred to
Carlotta. Somehow, she had not
thought of it before. Now she won-
dered how she could have failed to
think of it. She went to the staff and
confronted them. They were men of
courage, only declining to undertake
what they considered hopeless work.
The one man among them who might
have done the thing with any chance
of success lay stricken. Not one
among them but would have given of
his best—only his best was not good
enough.
“It would be the Edwardes opera-
tion, wouldn’t it?” demanded Carlotta.
The staff was bewildered. There
were no rules to cover such conduct
on the part of a nurse. One of them
replied rather heavily: “If any, it
would be the Edwardes operation.”
“Would Doctor Edwardes himself
be able to do anything?”
This was going a little far.
“Possibly. One chance in a thou-
sand, perhaps. But Edwardes is dead.
How did this thing happen, Miss Har-
rison?”
She ignored his question. Her face
was ghastly, save for the trace of
rouge; her eyes were red-rimmed.
“Doctor Edwardes is sitting on a
bench in the hall outside!” she an-
nounced.
Her voice rang out. K. heatd her
and raised his head. His attitude was
weary, resigned. The thing had come,
then! He was to take up the old bur-
den. The girl had told.
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(Continued next week.)
Circus Horse Saves Wounded Soldier.
A French soldier, Private Ambrose
Perrichon, owes his life to a German
circus horse, which picked him up
when he was lying on the field of bat-
tle and carried him into the French
lines, says a correspondent in the
“Horseshoer’s Journal.” Both the sol-
dier’s legs were shattered by a Ger-
man quick-firer. When night came
on he heard near him the heavy
breathing of a great white horse,
which munched the short grass. The
animal was riderless, and he whistled
to it and began to clap it kindly. The
horse whinnied with pleasure. Perri-
chon was powerless to make the
slightest effort on his own behalf. The
animal seemed to understand, for it
fell on its knees beside him, held its
head over his breast, and remained
motionless. Then it got up and walk-
ed around the soldier. At last it stop-
ped, sniffed the wounded man all over,
and then, seizing his leather waist-
belt in its teeth, it lifted him from the
ground and galloped off. When the
horse stopped in the advance French
lines at daybreak its human burden
was little more than a wreck. But
tender care has since brought him
round and he is now convalescent.
Perrichon’s sergeant, who knows a lo
about horses, says the animal which
saved his life was before the war in a
German circus, where it performed in
the pantomime known as “The Arab
and His Faithful Steed.”
— Because he is long and slender
and can tag the floor with his finger
tips, Commissioner Woods, of New
York, decreed that 10,000 cops not so
slender must do it, too.
—The “Watchman” has all the news
t | such as potatoes, onions, cabbages,
1
The Food Situation in Ireland.
|
The food situation in Ireland has
| provoked, from a certain section, the
| demand that no food shall be allowed
| to leave the Irish shores, and it has
been urged that unless the Govern-
ment prohibit export the people should
forcibly hold up the food at the Irish
ports. Though this demand has not
| been put forward from any responsi-
| ble source, it has been noticed by
i Thomas W. Russell, vice president of
| the Department of Agriculture for
| Ireland, who referred to it as “John
Mitchel’s old cry of ‘hold the food.” ”
Mr. Russell said only an over-
whelming emergency could justify the
risk of having their export trade de-
stroyed. Last year Ireland had ex-
ported £46,000,000 worth of food, and
to destroy that export trade would de-
stroy the import trade as well, since
| they could get goods into Ireland on-
lly by paying for them with exports.
There was no necessity whatever for
panic. There was an undoubted short-
age of potatoes, but its pressure
would not be felt till the end of May,
and they could make an effort to live
on without potatoes until the new
crop in June or July.
The Government measures for the
compulsory increase of tillage in Ire-
land are proving a success. They
were welcomed by the class of small
tenants who in most cases are tilling
more than the 10 per cent. extra re-
quired by the regulations. The large
graziers and owners of grass lands
held out at first, but the heads of the
Agricultural Department made it ev-
ident that they meant to insist on
their compulsory powers, and that,
unless the regulations were obeyed,
the land would be taken over and put
under tillage, whether the owners
liked it or not. This has had its ef-
fect and the reluctant owners are
obeying the order to till 10 per cent.
more land than that of last year.
The Irish Homestead, looking for-
ward to the end of the war and a con-
tinuance of high food prices, calls for
the organization of every parish in
Ireland upon co-operative lines for
the purchase of its raw matreial and
also for the sale of its products direct
to the merchants and wholesalers in
the towns. The increased cost of liv-
ing it attributes largely to the fact
that the distributive branch of agri-
culture had been organized in a very
haphazard way. It declares that, if
the work were organized, as in Den-
mark, Germany, Holland and Bel-
gium, the people in the British Isles
could have a food supply which would
insure them against any danger of
being starved out even if there were
a thousand submarines lying off their
harbors.
The Proper Care of Spare Tubes.
Mr. Geo. A. Beezer, of Beezer’s
Garage, local selling agent for the
Michelin Tire company, says that the
average motorist has learned by ex-
perience to take proper care of the
mechanism of his car, but he too often
neglects his tires. Ordinary care ac-
corded spare casings and tubes is
good insurance, and will save the mo-
torist both cash and trouble and a few
suggestions, therefore, regarding the
proper care of tires may benefit the
reader.
For example, never carry spare
tubes unprotected in the tool box—
they are almost certain to come in
contact with sharp tools and perhaps
greasy rags, or other greasy articles,
all of which are deadly enemies to
rubber.
Exposure to strong light and vary-
ing degrees of temperature is also
injurious to rubber, robbing it of its
elasticity and making it brittle. Al-
ways carry spare tubes in the water-
proof cloth bags supplied by all ac-
cessory dealers for this purpose.
Motorists sometimes try to avoid
trouble by carrying spare tubes in
the original cardboard boxes.. Jolt-
ing is sure to cause tubes to chafe
mroe or less on the rough inner
ing the tubes by wearing away the
rubber. Unless inner tubes are to be
stored. in the garage they should al-
ways be taken from the original box-
es and placed in the tube bags al-
ready described.
State College Students Learning to
Sail and Fly.
State College, Pa., May 1.—Courses
in aviation and navigation were start-
ed at The Pennsylvania State College
today to prepare the students for ad-
vanced service in the Naval Coast De-
fense Reserve and the flying corps of
the army. More than sixty men are
enrolled in the navigation course and
thirty are studying aviation.
R. L. Sackett, dean of the school of
engineering, an experienced yachts-
man, and a member of the Buffalo,
(N. Y.,) Yacht club, is conducting the
class in seamanship. His course of
instruction includes the design of
high-speed cruiser types of subma-
rine chasers; a study of gasoline, ker-
osine and oil engines; reading of nav-
igation charts; observations, marine
compass reading, and the practice of
night-flashings and soundings. Spe-
cial attention will be given to signal-
ing by day and night.
Prof. E. M. Bates, of the mechan-
ical engineering department, is in
charge of the aviation study. He is
lecturing and demonstrating with an
aeroplane motor and propellor. A
flying machine for practical use is
thought to be available.
——1If you find it in the “Watch-
to the “Watchman” Office.
Every member of the Lawyers’
Club of New York city is asked to
plant, or cause to be planted, this sea-
son, an acre of land, more or less, in
such a manner as to produce a maxi-
mum yield of some staple food crop,
carrots, turnips, beets, and so on, and
request friends to do likewise. The
phrase “more or less” will hardly es-
cape the notice of laymen, but the
general tendency to economize things
evidently influenced the lawyer-club-
man who drew up the petition to re-
frain from inserting, after “food
“that is to say, to-wit.”—Monitor.
——Put your ad. in the “Watch-
man.”
sides of the boxes eventually weaken- |
crop” in the foregoing, the words,
Forest Fires as Numerous as Last
Year.
Reports of forest fires received to
date by the chief forest fire warden
indicate a fire season very much like
last year’s, with fires about the same
in number, but being extinguished
more promptly and therefore cover-
ing smaller areas and doing less
damage. The first forest fire of the
season was reported as burning on
March 23rd, whereas the first fire
last year burned in January. Weath-
er conditions so far have been rather
favorable, and the Easter snow un-
doubtedly prevented many fires.
The largest fire reported to date
covered 1,200 acres in Dauphin coun-
ty, and one of the most stubborn fires
burned about 600 acres of the moun-
tain just east of the big stone arch
railroad bridge at Rockville. It was
apparently extinguished no less than
three times by different crews of fire
fighters. It is said to have been start-
ed by arbutus pickers from Harris-
burg.
One of the Dauphin county wardens
last year found a Sunday-school
teacher from Harrisburg with her
class of boys comfortably seated on
a big rock on the mountainside, with
a merry fire burning and a thirty-
mile gale blowing toward the moun-
tain. She was under the impression,
she said, that anyone might start a
fire anywhere in the forest provided
buildings were not endangered. The
warden lost no time in extinguishing
the fire and correcting her impres-
sion.
Fire Wardens to be Listed in Tele-
phone Directory.
By the terms of an agreement en-
tered into between the Bell Telephone
company and the Pennsylvania De-
partment of Forestry, complete lists
of the forest fire wardens in fifty-six
counties of Pennsylvania will be pub-
listed in fourteen of the new tele-
phone directories to be issued during
the next few weeks. The wardens
will be listed by counties and town-
ships on a page in the front advertis-
ing section of the directories. They
will be indexed alo under the head-
ing “Forest Fire Wardens,” and
numbers and calls will be given for
all lines which connect fire wardens,
whether the lines are part of the Bell
system or not.
This move is part of the campaign
of the Department of Forestry to re-
duce the damage from forest fires by
making it easy to turn in an alarm.
Most of the fire wardens have tele-
phones, and after the new. directories
come out there will be small excuse
for anyone not reporting a forest fire |
immediately to the nearest warden.
Convicted for Starting Forest Fires.
The first conviction of the year for
starting forest fires has been obtain-
ed in Johnstown, where two boys were
fined for setting fires in the hills of
Lower Yoder township, Cambria
county. the boys were haled before
Dr. Bertha Caldwell, probation offi-
cer of the juvenile court, with their
fathers, but after fines and costs had
been imposed, the fathers in some way
got out of the room without paying.
As a result the boys will probably be
sent to the Ebensburg jail for a short
term as a lesson to them and to oth-
er boys of the community.
— They are all good enough, but
the “Watchman” is always the best.
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An Appreciable Asset.
“can name an
honest business that has been helped
by the saloon I will spend the rest of
my life working for the liquor peo-
ple.”
A man in the audience rose.
“I consider my business honest,” he
said, “and it has been helped by the
yelled
saloon.”
“If any man here,” shouted the
temperance lecturer,
“What is your business?”
the orator.
«I am an undertaker.”—New York
Times.
Canadian railway unions are
solving the high cost of living by co-
operative purchasing of provisions.
TUESDAY
Hx the old range does love to heat things up, espe-
cially when it’s sizzling hot outside! Then, there's
always the coal or wood to carry, always that constant
raking and poking, pulling this and pushing that, to keep
the fire going.
But the ironing must be done. There's no other way to
do it, is there? No, not unless you have a New Perfection
Oil Cook Stove in your kitchen.
have made thousands of women happy—freed them from the iron-
ing day and the everyday drudgery and overwork you have now.
A Perfection will heat the irons on Tuesdays. And it’s always
ready to bake, fry, boil or roast at the strike of a match. You'll be
particularly interested in the separate oven and the fireless cooker.
Your dealer will explain about them. Ask him.
THE ATLANTIC REFINING COMPANY
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh
One of the many good
points about a Perfection is
that it burns the most eco-
nomical fuel—kerosene. And
the best kerosene isRayolight.
It's so highly refined that it
burns without smoking, sput-
tering, smelling or charring
the wicks. Look for this sign:
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Dry Goods.
LYON @ COMPANY.
Dry Goods.
Owing to the continued cold weather
we are compelled to make greater
reductions on all
SUMMER SUITS AND COATS
now go at
styles.
SAR
RUGS!
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SHOES!
Do not forget that we can save you big money on Shoes for
Men, Women and Children. We have them in all colors; black,
tan and white. :
Lyon & Co. - Bellefonte.
LOT 1.—Black and White Checked Coat Suits, all this season’s
style, that sold at $15 and $18, now go for $10 and $12.50.
LOL 2.—Navy Blue and Black Suits, all this season’s styles,
© that sold from $18 to $25, now go for
LOT 3.—Better qualities, including Silk and Jersey Cloth, Serg-
es, Poplin, Poiret Twill, Wool Velours, in Rose, Emerald,
Navy Black, Gold and Purple, that sold at $25.00 to $35.00,
COATS for Ladies’, Misses, and Children, all this season's
Must be sold at the same reductions. Formerly sold
at $8.00 to $35.00, now go from
Our Rug Department is again replenished.
ceived a big lot of Rugs in Rag, Jap, Velvet, Body Brussels and
Axminsters, at prices that were contracted for before the advance.
Tapestry, Draperies and Curtains.
A big line of Tapestry in Cotton, Linen and Wool, 36 to 50
inches wide, in all the new colorings.
Portieres to match any color.
$12.50 to $15.
$20.00 and $23.00.
$5.00 $28.50.
RUGS!
We have just re-
Draperies, Curtains and
SHOES !!
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© 1917 STROUSE & BROS. INC. BALTO. MD.’
If there is one time in the year when
a man likes to look unusually neat
and fresh and Well Dressed it is in
the spring, and if there is one year
and one store more than another to
satisfy this natural desire, this is
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THIS IS THE STORE:
LET US SHOW YOU.
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Allegheny St. s« BELLEFONTE, PA.